OPINION:
Good times roll if Democrats control the presidency and the budgetary process, and can manipulate government when increasing interest rates converge with trillions of dollars of increased national debt (“Biden swings into socialist gear with huge tax hike plan,” Web, March 15). Easy peasy — just release the pressure by raising taxes. And if that isn’t enough, rinse and repeat until private wallets shrink to fit the progressive fantasy.
Don’t forget: Opaque bubbles enclose incurious progressives who believe that they cannot be wrong and cannot be shamed. If a liberal policy fails, it is never because the policy itself is flawed, but rather because the policy was not funded appropriately or administered properly or, if those excuses don’t fit, the fault of conservative skinflints.
It never dawns on progressive true believers that alien ideas may be legitimate, so great is the ideological comfort and the elitism it ensures with their very own “in” crowd. The superiority felt by so many progressives is reflected in their desire to castigate the source of objectionable ideas rather than the legitimate target, the ideas themselves that rattle and roil their comfort zones.
PAUL BLOUSTEIN
Cincinnati
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